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We were ready to start at the time of the next inferior conjunction of Mercury with the earth. At our combined pleading, and with the permission of his associates, Fuero was persuaded to take command of the nation during my absence; and I felt I was leaving affairs in able hands.
These two classes the most influential in the community have their fuero, their special jurisdiction; and woe to the unfortunate civilian who attacks them in their own courts! Of what sort of justice is dealt out in that court, one may form some faint idea. One of our friends in Mexico had a house which was too large for him, and in a moment of weakness he let part of it to a priest.
But he soon raised up his head, and taking off his gold chain, whereon dangled his own effigy, he hung it round my child's neck with these words: "Hocce tuce pulchritudim! et si favente Deo redux fuero victor, promissum carmen et praeterea duo oscula exspecto." Hereupon the Sheriff with his three men again came forward and bowed down to the ground before his Majesty.
I had, during all this time, selected as many able men as possible from among the Great City's population, and given them over to Fuero and his associates for training in the use of the light-ray rockets, the larger projectors, protective measures against the ray, and many other appliances which I understood only vaguely myself.
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